Improving Health Care for Homeless People

Improving Health Care Management in Primary Care for Homeless People: A Literature Review

BACKGROUND Homeless people have poorer health status than the general population. They need complex care management, because of associated medical troubles (somatic and psychiatric) and social difficulties. We aimed to describe the main characteristics of the primary care programs that take care of homeless people, and to identify which could be most relevant. METHODS We performed a literatur...

Making it matter: improving the health of young homeless people.

Physician payment for the care of homeless people.

Design and analysis of a health care clinic for homeless people using simulations.

PURPOSE Improving quality of care is important in health care management. For health care clinics, reducing patient waiting time and improving throughput with efficient utilization of the workforce are important issues to achieve better quality of care. This paper seeks to introduce a simulation study on design and analysis of a health clinic for homeless patients in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. ...

Dying in the shadows: the challenge of providing health care for homeless people.

Commentary Commentaire T he study of mortality among homeless women reported in this issue by Cheung and Hwang 1 (see page 1243) is a clarion call to our society and our health care community. The stunning 10-fold disparity in mortality rates between Toronto's homeless and housed women aged 18–44 is complemented by data from 7 other cities, which show that the risk of death among younger homele...